Challenges: Camp Nano, Clean Sweep and others #AtoZChallenge

Challenges seem a good focus for my C of the A to Z this year. I write a guest post for The Story Reading Ape’s blog, mostly published on the second Sunday of the month. Somehow I got myself into a mini-series on types of challenges – Blogging in February, Writing in March, and Reading in April (out this coming Sunday). I’m not sure what my May topic will be; if you have a suggestion, let me know!

Some Challenges beginning with C

Camp NaNoWriMo: you know about NaNoWriMo every November, I’m sure, but did you also know you can do a virtual summer camp of writing (or editing, or revising) your project in April or July (or both?). I’ve enjoyed these and found it a good way to focus on getting things written that have been hanging around for a while. The virtual cabins mean that you make some new writing buddies, too.

I’m sure you can find something to suit you in the list, even if you stick with one beginning with C! I’m doing the Colour-Coded Challenge among my collection this year, and you can see my progress here.

For me NaNo is about the deadline and that graph. Why, I don’t know, since I could set myself the target and do the graph perfectly well. I suppose it’s like dieting – unless someone else is doing the measurement it doesn’t work. You probably don’t know about dieting lol

Me too, most years, Kristin. Most of the reading challenges are for the whole year, although Clean Sweep lasts a month. Researching it further, there was one by the same people to get more of your TBRs off your shelf during March. I hope that doesn’t mean she’s dropped the Clean Sweep!

When I saw the full list of reading challenges (and there’s no guarantee it’s a full list, but people can send in their own to add to the list) I was amazed. I think it was Bruce, the Bookshelf Gargoyle, who got me hooked on reading challenges.

I have a love-hate relationship with reading challenges. Since I get a lot of my books by chance–either what I got hold of for review, or what I stumble on when sorting books at the library–I tend to fill in challenges in a spotty fashion.

Still, I think that jumping in on either a challenge or, maybe more to the point, a monthly reading group on GR for cozies would be a good thing to do! And I definitely try to keep on top of the ARCs, but recently stumbled on one that as far as I can tell I never reviewed. I’m not even sure now if it was because I thought the book was flawed, or I just got busy. I’m going to listen to at least part of it again to find out so I can do a belated review.The Ninja Librarian’s Favorite Characters